Talk:muggle

never been to wictionary and are unsure how content is to be presented here. the word "muggle" was definitely not coined by J.K. Rowling. It is used more than once in 1964 British television. BBC - The Great War - Episode 09 - "Please God send us a victory"; UK,1964 "And this meant that the British New Army divisions could not advance either, even when they found out what to do and where to go. Muggle and mischance had prevailed again." (at about 32min)

Etimology

Muggles are Mag-lesses

84.95.229.179 12:30, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June–July 2020

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muggle

Seeking verification for the senses under etymologies 3 and 4; "hot chocolate" (noun) and "(obsolete) to be restless" (verb). Not present in the revised entry in the OED Online. — SGconlaw (talk) 20:37, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

The hot chocolate sense comes from this book. That's all I found so far. DTLHS (talk) 20:41, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

And that book says that it was just used at the Bryn Mawr womens college ... a hundred years ago .... college slang can be fun but I dont think this really counts as a word in the wider English language. —Soap— 01:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

The restless sense appears in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857): "Muggling, moving about, restless". Equinox ◑ 07:30, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Judging from the evidence gathered on the citations page so far, it doesn't look like the "hot chocolate" and "to be restless" senses will pass – we only have dictionary entries and don't have at least three actual uses. However, the "muddle along" sense, which was not originally in the entry, seems verified. — SGconlaw (talk) 09:31, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

The EDD has a few more citations (than have been added so ar AFAICT) of some of the other senses, but is no help with these. - -sche (discuss) 02:53, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I think the senses now under etymologies 4 and 5 have failed as they appear in dictionaries but there are insufficient actual uses. They will have to stay on the citations page for now. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:54, 27 July 2020 (UTC)